Viola Group

Viola Group is Israel's technology-focused investment group that operates a multi-strategy platform to support technology entrepreneurs from early stage to growth. Based in Herzliya and founded in 2000, the group manages over $3 billion in assets and oversees several specialized units, including Viola Ventures (early-stage venture capital), Viola Growth (growth capital), Viola Credit (private credit), Viola Partners (private investor fund), and Viola FinTech (cross-stage fintech investments). Viola Group primarily backs Israeli technology companies and related ventures, while also pursuing global opportunities. The firm provides more than capital by offering strategic guidance, board participation, and access to a broad international network to help portfolio companies scale in software, cybersecurity, fintech, AI, semiconductors, and other tech-enabled sectors. The approach emphasizes long-term value creation through investments across multiple stages and active portfolio support.

Yael Alroy

Principal

Itzik Avidor

Partner

Shlomo Dovrat

Co-Founder and General Partner

Ranit Etzion-Weiss

Analyst

S. Fitzgerald Haney

Partner and Head of Strategic Development

Past deals in Risk Management

Obligo

Debt Financing in 2024
Obligo, Inc. is a financial technology company based in New York, established in 2017, that offers innovative solutions to eliminate the traditional security deposit requirement for renters and landlords. Through its unique platform, Obligo allows tenants to provide landlords with a limited credit-backed billing authorization instead of cash deposits, significantly streamlining the move-in process. This model enables landlords to secure their interests while giving tenants the ability to hold onto their cash. In the event of property damage or claims at the end of a tenancy, Obligo facilitates immediate payments to landlords while permitting tenants to repay the claim in manageable installments. By leveraging Open Banking technology and AI-based underwriting, Obligo aims to enhance fairness, trust, and transparency in the tenant-landlord relationship.

PayZen

Debt Financing in 2024
PayZen is a healthcare fintech company that helps patients manage out-of-pocket medical expenses by offering flexible, transparent payment plans and non-recourse financing. The platform enables patients to pay bills over time while helping providers accelerate cash flow and reduce costly collections. It uses AI-powered risk assessment to tailor each plan to the individual patient, supporting affordable payments without upfront burden. Founded in 2019 in San Francisco by Ariel Rosenthal, Itzik Cohen, and Tobias Mezger, PayZen aims to reduce financial barriers to care while enabling providers to focus on delivering services.

PayZen

Series B in 2024
PayZen is a healthcare fintech company that helps patients manage out-of-pocket medical expenses by offering flexible, transparent payment plans and non-recourse financing. The platform enables patients to pay bills over time while helping providers accelerate cash flow and reduce costly collections. It uses AI-powered risk assessment to tailor each plan to the individual patient, supporting affordable payments without upfront burden. Founded in 2019 in San Francisco by Ariel Rosenthal, Itzik Cohen, and Tobias Mezger, PayZen aims to reduce financial barriers to care while enabling providers to focus on delivering services.

Hokodo

Debt Financing in 2024
Founded in 2018, Hokodo is a European provider of B2B Buy Now, Pay Later solutions. It offers an easy-to-integrate digital platform that streamlines the order-to-cash process, enabling merchants to make real-time credit decisions, protect against bad debt, and access working capital finance options.

NsKnox

Series B in 2023
NsKnox is a fintech security company specializing in cooperative cyber security that protects corporate payment systems from insider threats, external fraud, and data manipulation. It develops real-time fraud prevention technology that detects fraud, inside attacks, external scams, social engineering, and data manipulation, helping corporations and banks prevent fraud, ensure regulatory compliance in B2B payments, and strengthen protection across systems to ensure every payment reaches the intended beneficiary. The company was founded in 2016 by Alon Cohen and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

PayZen

Debt Financing in 2022
PayZen is a healthcare fintech company that helps patients manage out-of-pocket medical expenses by offering flexible, transparent payment plans and non-recourse financing. The platform enables patients to pay bills over time while helping providers accelerate cash flow and reduce costly collections. It uses AI-powered risk assessment to tailor each plan to the individual patient, supporting affordable payments without upfront burden. Founded in 2019 in San Francisco by Ariel Rosenthal, Itzik Cohen, and Tobias Mezger, PayZen aims to reduce financial barriers to care while enabling providers to focus on delivering services.

Planck

Venture Round in 2022
Planck is a commercial insurance data platform that enhances the underwriting process for insurers through advanced technology and artificial intelligence. The platform aggregates extensive datasets to provide real-time analytics and insights, streamlining the assessment of risks associated with businesses. By automating the completion of ACORD forms and leveraging publicly available data, image processing, and company reports, Planck facilitates accurate and efficient underwriting. This approach minimizes the potential for fraud and errors, ultimately helping insurance providers to develop tailored policies and reduce loss ratios. Through its innovative solutions, Planck aims to transform the way insurance companies evaluate and underwrite risks in the commercial sector.

CyberInt

Venture Round in 2022
CyberInt is a global threat intelligence provider that helps organizations protect their digital assets by combining a market-proven digital risk protection platform with expert cyber analysts. Its platform enables autonomous discovery of all external-facing assets and leverages open, deep, and dark web intelligence to monitor external risk exposure in real time and support proactive mitigation. The company offers threat intelligence, cyber posture and digital brand protection, internet presence protection, cyber fraud protection, and supply chain risk management, along with services such as intelligence-led penetration testing, managed detection and response, strategy consulting, maturity assessment, and risk management framework guidance. It serves more than 100 brands across financial services, retail, gaming, entertainment, and media industries worldwide.

Cowbell Cyber

Series B in 2022
Cowbell Cyber develops an artificial intelligence powered platform that quantifies cyber risk for small and mid-sized businesses. It provides standalone cyber insurance designed to adapt to evolving threats, increase insurability, and give clear visibility into risk exposure. The platform combines inside-out data and advanced machine learning to assess insurable threats and support continuous underwriting, mapping risk exposures to potential losses. The company delivers a closed loop risk management approach that includes risk prevention, mitigation, incident preparedness and response services, helping policyholders manage cyber risk over time. Cowbell serves a range of industries and focuses on SMEs seeking easy to understand, individualized coverage that evolves with their risk profile.

T-REX

Series C in 2022
T-Rex Group, Inc., established in 2012, is a technology company specializing in enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. Based in New York, with offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, the company develops platforms tailored to the finance, renewables, and technology sectors. Its flagship product, T-REX Analytics, is an advanced SaaS analytics platform designed to analyze and manage solar asset acquisitions and sales, structure renewable energy-backed deals, and portfolio management. The platform enables solar developers and asset managers to stress test production and credit risk parameters, model customized debt tranches, and value securitization transactions. By digitizing and standardizing data, and automating workflows, T-Rex aims to facilitate capital flow into complex assets, fostering innovation in the renewable energy sector.

PayZen

Series A in 2021
PayZen is a healthcare fintech company that helps patients manage out-of-pocket medical expenses by offering flexible, transparent payment plans and non-recourse financing. The platform enables patients to pay bills over time while helping providers accelerate cash flow and reduce costly collections. It uses AI-powered risk assessment to tailor each plan to the individual patient, supporting affordable payments without upfront burden. Founded in 2019 in San Francisco by Ariel Rosenthal, Itzik Cohen, and Tobias Mezger, PayZen aims to reduce financial barriers to care while enabling providers to focus on delivering services.

Planck

Venture Round in 2021
Planck is a commercial insurance data platform that enhances the underwriting process for insurers through advanced technology and artificial intelligence. The platform aggregates extensive datasets to provide real-time analytics and insights, streamlining the assessment of risks associated with businesses. By automating the completion of ACORD forms and leveraging publicly available data, image processing, and company reports, Planck facilitates accurate and efficient underwriting. This approach minimizes the potential for fraud and errors, ultimately helping insurance providers to develop tailored policies and reduce loss ratios. Through its innovative solutions, Planck aims to transform the way insurance companies evaluate and underwrite risks in the commercial sector.

Obligo

Series A in 2020
Obligo, Inc. is a financial technology company based in New York, established in 2017, that offers innovative solutions to eliminate the traditional security deposit requirement for renters and landlords. Through its unique platform, Obligo allows tenants to provide landlords with a limited credit-backed billing authorization instead of cash deposits, significantly streamlining the move-in process. This model enables landlords to secure their interests while giving tenants the ability to hold onto their cash. In the event of property damage or claims at the end of a tenancy, Obligo facilitates immediate payments to landlords while permitting tenants to repay the claim in manageable installments. By leveraging Open Banking technology and AI-based underwriting, Obligo aims to enhance fairness, trust, and transparency in the tenant-landlord relationship.

EverC

Series B in 2020
EverC is a provider of cloud-based cyber risk intelligence and merchant fraud detection solutions for the online seller ecosystem. The company offers MerchantView, a monitoring platform for acquiring banks and payment service providers to manage merchant-based fraud and cyber risk, and MarketView, which tracks illicit marketplace listings. Its services include detection of violating merchants, transaction laundering verification, card compliance consulting, and web analyst verification. Founded in 2015, EverC combines risk intelligence, data science, fintech, and payments expertise to power cross-channel risk management. The platform rapidly detects high-risk merchants, online money laundering, and fake or illegal products, while ongoing monitoring mitigates evolving risk. EverC aims to help marketplaces, global payment providers, and online sellers grow safely by transforming the internet into a transparent, trusted environment.

Planck

Series B in 2020
Planck is a commercial insurance data platform that enhances the underwriting process for insurers through advanced technology and artificial intelligence. The platform aggregates extensive datasets to provide real-time analytics and insights, streamlining the assessment of risks associated with businesses. By automating the completion of ACORD forms and leveraging publicly available data, image processing, and company reports, Planck facilitates accurate and efficient underwriting. This approach minimizes the potential for fraud and errors, ultimately helping insurance providers to develop tailored policies and reduce loss ratios. Through its innovative solutions, Planck aims to transform the way insurance companies evaluate and underwrite risks in the commercial sector.

T-REX

Corporate Round in 2019
T-Rex Group, Inc., established in 2012, is a technology company specializing in enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. Based in New York, with offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, the company develops platforms tailored to the finance, renewables, and technology sectors. Its flagship product, T-REX Analytics, is an advanced SaaS analytics platform designed to analyze and manage solar asset acquisitions and sales, structure renewable energy-backed deals, and portfolio management. The platform enables solar developers and asset managers to stress test production and credit risk parameters, model customized debt tranches, and value securitization transactions. By digitizing and standardizing data, and automating workflows, T-Rex aims to facilitate capital flow into complex assets, fostering innovation in the renewable energy sector.

PayZen

Seed Round in 2019
PayZen is a healthcare fintech company that helps patients manage out-of-pocket medical expenses by offering flexible, transparent payment plans and non-recourse financing. The platform enables patients to pay bills over time while helping providers accelerate cash flow and reduce costly collections. It uses AI-powered risk assessment to tailor each plan to the individual patient, supporting affordable payments without upfront burden. Founded in 2019 in San Francisco by Ariel Rosenthal, Itzik Cohen, and Tobias Mezger, PayZen aims to reduce financial barriers to care while enabling providers to focus on delivering services.

T-REX

Series C in 2019
T-Rex Group, Inc., established in 2012, is a technology company specializing in enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. Based in New York, with offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, the company develops platforms tailored to the finance, renewables, and technology sectors. Its flagship product, T-REX Analytics, is an advanced SaaS analytics platform designed to analyze and manage solar asset acquisitions and sales, structure renewable energy-backed deals, and portfolio management. The platform enables solar developers and asset managers to stress test production and credit risk parameters, model customized debt tranches, and value securitization transactions. By digitizing and standardizing data, and automating workflows, T-Rex aims to facilitate capital flow into complex assets, fostering innovation in the renewable energy sector.

NsKnox

Series A in 2019
NsKnox is a fintech security company specializing in cooperative cyber security that protects corporate payment systems from insider threats, external fraud, and data manipulation. It develops real-time fraud prevention technology that detects fraud, inside attacks, external scams, social engineering, and data manipulation, helping corporations and banks prevent fraud, ensure regulatory compliance in B2B payments, and strengthen protection across systems to ensure every payment reaches the intended beneficiary. The company was founded in 2016 by Alon Cohen and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Planck

Series A in 2018
Planck is a commercial insurance data platform that enhances the underwriting process for insurers through advanced technology and artificial intelligence. The platform aggregates extensive datasets to provide real-time analytics and insights, streamlining the assessment of risks associated with businesses. By automating the completion of ACORD forms and leveraging publicly available data, image processing, and company reports, Planck facilitates accurate and efficient underwriting. This approach minimizes the potential for fraud and errors, ultimately helping insurance providers to develop tailored policies and reduce loss ratios. Through its innovative solutions, Planck aims to transform the way insurance companies evaluate and underwrite risks in the commercial sector.

Obligo

Debt Financing in 2018
Obligo, Inc. is a financial technology company based in New York, established in 2017, that offers innovative solutions to eliminate the traditional security deposit requirement for renters and landlords. Through its unique platform, Obligo allows tenants to provide landlords with a limited credit-backed billing authorization instead of cash deposits, significantly streamlining the move-in process. This model enables landlords to secure their interests while giving tenants the ability to hold onto their cash. In the event of property damage or claims at the end of a tenancy, Obligo facilitates immediate payments to landlords while permitting tenants to repay the claim in manageable installments. By leveraging Open Banking technology and AI-based underwriting, Obligo aims to enhance fairness, trust, and transparency in the tenant-landlord relationship.

CyberInt

Series B in 2018
CyberInt is a global threat intelligence provider that helps organizations protect their digital assets by combining a market-proven digital risk protection platform with expert cyber analysts. Its platform enables autonomous discovery of all external-facing assets and leverages open, deep, and dark web intelligence to monitor external risk exposure in real time and support proactive mitigation. The company offers threat intelligence, cyber posture and digital brand protection, internet presence protection, cyber fraud protection, and supply chain risk management, along with services such as intelligence-led penetration testing, managed detection and response, strategy consulting, maturity assessment, and risk management framework guidance. It serves more than 100 brands across financial services, retail, gaming, entertainment, and media industries worldwide.

EverC

Corporate Round in 2018
EverC is a provider of cloud-based cyber risk intelligence and merchant fraud detection solutions for the online seller ecosystem. The company offers MerchantView, a monitoring platform for acquiring banks and payment service providers to manage merchant-based fraud and cyber risk, and MarketView, which tracks illicit marketplace listings. Its services include detection of violating merchants, transaction laundering verification, card compliance consulting, and web analyst verification. Founded in 2015, EverC combines risk intelligence, data science, fintech, and payments expertise to power cross-channel risk management. The platform rapidly detects high-risk merchants, online money laundering, and fake or illegal products, while ongoing monitoring mitigates evolving risk. EverC aims to help marketplaces, global payment providers, and online sellers grow safely by transforming the internet into a transparent, trusted environment.

EverC

Series A in 2016
EverC is a provider of cloud-based cyber risk intelligence and merchant fraud detection solutions for the online seller ecosystem. The company offers MerchantView, a monitoring platform for acquiring banks and payment service providers to manage merchant-based fraud and cyber risk, and MarketView, which tracks illicit marketplace listings. Its services include detection of violating merchants, transaction laundering verification, card compliance consulting, and web analyst verification. Founded in 2015, EverC combines risk intelligence, data science, fintech, and payments expertise to power cross-channel risk management. The platform rapidly detects high-risk merchants, online money laundering, and fake or illegal products, while ongoing monitoring mitigates evolving risk. EverC aims to help marketplaces, global payment providers, and online sellers grow safely by transforming the internet into a transparent, trusted environment.

EverC

Series A in 2015
EverC is a provider of cloud-based cyber risk intelligence and merchant fraud detection solutions for the online seller ecosystem. The company offers MerchantView, a monitoring platform for acquiring banks and payment service providers to manage merchant-based fraud and cyber risk, and MarketView, which tracks illicit marketplace listings. Its services include detection of violating merchants, transaction laundering verification, card compliance consulting, and web analyst verification. Founded in 2015, EverC combines risk intelligence, data science, fintech, and payments expertise to power cross-channel risk management. The platform rapidly detects high-risk merchants, online money laundering, and fake or illegal products, while ongoing monitoring mitigates evolving risk. EverC aims to help marketplaces, global payment providers, and online sellers grow safely by transforming the internet into a transparent, trusted environment.

Skybox Security

Series D in 2009
Skybox Security, Inc. specializes in cybersecurity management solutions tailored for enterprises. The company offers a comprehensive Security Posture Management Platform that enhances visibility, analytics, and automation across corporate networks and cloud environments. Its key products include Skybox Horizon, which provides insight into the attack surface; Skybox Vulnerability Control, which focuses on context-aware vulnerability management; and Skybox Threat Manager, which offers threat intelligence analysis and response services. Additionally, Skybox Firewall Assurance ensures firewall security and compliance, while Skybox Change Manager streamlines the firewall change management process. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including financial services, government, energy, technology, telecommunications, and healthcare. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Skybox Security also maintains offices in various regions, including Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South Africa.

Axxana

Series B in 2009
Axxana Inc. is a provider of disaster recovery solutions tailored for enterprises and cloud service providers, with a focus on ensuring zero data loss during recovery. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel, with an additional office in Newton, Massachusetts, Axxana offers innovative products such as the Phoenix System, which is specifically designed for Oracle and Exadata environments. This system facilitates data recovery across various distances and communication lines. Additionally, Axxana's Phoenix System RP enhances the performance of asynchronous replication by delivering synchronous data protection, allowing for effective data recovery without transaction loss. The company employs advanced technologies, drawing on expertise from aviation's Flight Data Recorder systems, to tackle contemporary data protection challenges, positioning itself as a leader in the emerging field of Enterprise Data Recording.

Skybox Security

Series D in 2006
Skybox Security, Inc. specializes in cybersecurity management solutions tailored for enterprises. The company offers a comprehensive Security Posture Management Platform that enhances visibility, analytics, and automation across corporate networks and cloud environments. Its key products include Skybox Horizon, which provides insight into the attack surface; Skybox Vulnerability Control, which focuses on context-aware vulnerability management; and Skybox Threat Manager, which offers threat intelligence analysis and response services. Additionally, Skybox Firewall Assurance ensures firewall security and compliance, while Skybox Change Manager streamlines the firewall change management process. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including financial services, government, energy, technology, telecommunications, and healthcare. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Skybox Security also maintains offices in various regions, including Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South Africa.

InsureWorx

Debt Financing in 2006
InsureWorx is a leading provider of enterprise and tactical software solutions for Workers’ Compensation, Commercial Property & Casualty and Risk Administration organizations. Established in January of 2005 following WorldGroup’s acquisition of Taliant Software, InsureWorx, Inc. combined the expertise, product strength and industry savvy of two highly respected insurance industry software solution providers. The result: a powerhouse organization possessing expanded research and development capabilities; and the ability to expedite forward-looking commercial lines and ancillary product options. Comprising decades of experience deploying reliable, well-built and functionally rich software applications, our Workers’ Compensation client base alone provides more than 25 percent of the WC insurance in the United States. Our flagship PowerComp™ product line delivers unmatched breadth and depth of functionality in an enterprise class software solution. Acquired by Fiserv.

Skybox Security

Series C in 2004
Skybox Security, Inc. specializes in cybersecurity management solutions tailored for enterprises. The company offers a comprehensive Security Posture Management Platform that enhances visibility, analytics, and automation across corporate networks and cloud environments. Its key products include Skybox Horizon, which provides insight into the attack surface; Skybox Vulnerability Control, which focuses on context-aware vulnerability management; and Skybox Threat Manager, which offers threat intelligence analysis and response services. Additionally, Skybox Firewall Assurance ensures firewall security and compliance, while Skybox Change Manager streamlines the firewall change management process. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including financial services, government, energy, technology, telecommunications, and healthcare. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Skybox Security also maintains offices in various regions, including Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South Africa.

Actimize

Series C in 2004
NICE Actimize is a leading provider of financial crime, risk, and compliance solutions for financial institutions and government regulators. The company specializes in using innovative technology to combat financial crime, safeguard consumer and investor assets, and ensure regulatory compliance. Its offerings include real-time fraud prevention, anti-money laundering detection, and trading surveillance solutions, addressing issues such as payment fraud, cybercrime, sanctions monitoring, market abuse, customer due diligence, and insider trading. NICE Actimize serves a diverse range of clients, including financial institutions, telecom service providers, retailers, airlines, and security agencies, helping them identify critical events and make informed business decisions.

Actimize

Series B in 2002
NICE Actimize is a leading provider of financial crime, risk, and compliance solutions for financial institutions and government regulators. The company specializes in using innovative technology to combat financial crime, safeguard consumer and investor assets, and ensure regulatory compliance. Its offerings include real-time fraud prevention, anti-money laundering detection, and trading surveillance solutions, addressing issues such as payment fraud, cybercrime, sanctions monitoring, market abuse, customer due diligence, and insider trading. NICE Actimize serves a diverse range of clients, including financial institutions, telecom service providers, retailers, airlines, and security agencies, helping them identify critical events and make informed business decisions.

Skybox Security

Seed Round in 2002
Skybox Security, Inc. specializes in cybersecurity management solutions tailored for enterprises. The company offers a comprehensive Security Posture Management Platform that enhances visibility, analytics, and automation across corporate networks and cloud environments. Its key products include Skybox Horizon, which provides insight into the attack surface; Skybox Vulnerability Control, which focuses on context-aware vulnerability management; and Skybox Threat Manager, which offers threat intelligence analysis and response services. Additionally, Skybox Firewall Assurance ensures firewall security and compliance, while Skybox Change Manager streamlines the firewall change management process. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including financial services, government, energy, technology, telecommunications, and healthcare. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Skybox Security also maintains offices in various regions, including Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South Africa.

Actimize

Series A in 2001
NICE Actimize is a leading provider of financial crime, risk, and compliance solutions for financial institutions and government regulators. The company specializes in using innovative technology to combat financial crime, safeguard consumer and investor assets, and ensure regulatory compliance. Its offerings include real-time fraud prevention, anti-money laundering detection, and trading surveillance solutions, addressing issues such as payment fraud, cybercrime, sanctions monitoring, market abuse, customer due diligence, and insider trading. NICE Actimize serves a diverse range of clients, including financial institutions, telecom service providers, retailers, airlines, and security agencies, helping them identify critical events and make informed business decisions.

Cyota

Debt Financing in 2000
Cyota was a provider of online security and fraud prevention services for financial institutions, focusing on internet-based fraud such as online banking fraud, e-commerce fraud and phishing. The company offered phishing detection tools, transaction monitoring systems, and authentication platforms to help banks, payment processors, and e-commerce companies reduce fraud and maintain secure operations. Cyota was acquired by RSA Security in 2005.
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